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The subtle difference between amateur and professional
- pg 19y agoThis is the difference between inexperienced and experienced, not amateur and professional.
- asdflkj 19y agoSeems to me like the difference between bad and good. Experience doesn't always make you good.
- pg 19y agoRestraint is not the only component of good, but it is the component that improves most with experience. Conversely, the most common mistake made by the inexperienced (even if they are otherwise good) is to overdo things.
- rams 19y ago"Restraint is not the only component of good" - What are the others ? Also, what's the diff. between amateur and professional ? Hmm, that sounds like another essay, altogether.
- menloparkbum 19y agoThe difference between amateur and professional is not very subtle. The professional gets paid, and the amateur doesn't.
- mojuba 19y agoIn programming, a subtle change in architecture may lead to a dramatic change in terms of lines of code.
- ardit33 19y agoreally? than that is some really crappy architecture, or the app itself is really small. In real applications, there are always subtle changes, trade-offs, workaroundts... on the architecture. That's part of life.
- LPTS 19y agoAn ametuer works when inspired, a professional works whether or not they feel inspired.